Uber’s Maps engineering team is looking to solve global-scale GeoSpatial solutions problems to power products across Uber’s Rides and Delivery businesses
Requirements
A minimum of 10 years proven experience building software across the stack (mobile, platform, data pipelining and ML) and significant experience working on optimization and distributed systems for consumer-facing products
Proven experience in designing, building, and managing large-scale realtime systems with high availability to support millions of users and/or high call volume
Prior experience in maps, location technologies or search domain
Experience with UI/X and consumer-facing mobile apps
Advanced degree
Significant experience working on optimization and distributed systems for consumer-facing products
Experience building software across the stack (mobile, platform, data pipelining and ML)
Responsibilities
Build the long term vision and provide technical leadership, while influencing and partnering with your team to architect, design and build consumer focused products that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead
Strategize and collaborate closely with Product, Data Science and Engineering teams throughout the company to drive and shape the technical direction, product vision and roadmap
Translate the strategic roadmap into a practical execution plan with quarterly OKR’s
Build an influential culture of engineering excellence maintaining the balance and right tradeoff for building products for speed and tech debt
Develop an operational model to achieve operational excellence for Product metrics and Engineering metrics
Build a strong eng brand for Maps and be able to attract, mentor and develop the talent in the team
Build trust and foster a collaborative team culture and help grow the respective leaders on the team
Other
Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
A minimum of 7 years of management experience leading software engineering teams
Excellent executive presence to communicate the team’s vision/plan effectively and represent the Maps engineering organization and POV in the overall Marketplace group
Ability to attract, mentor and develop the talent in the team
Ability to build trust and foster a collaborative team culture
